The "healthcare" system isn't broken, it works perfectly.
You're just mistaken about what its purpose is.

It's one of the most beautiful examples of capitalism working as intended: When you're hurting or dying, your demand for healthcare is unlimited, and you're in no position to compare prices or services, so cost is determined by the maximum amount that can be squeezed out of you during your remaining lifetime.

The worst and most common misconception is that I can fix their Windows issues from a vague description they give me at a party.

As a German, this is one of the few movies where the dubbed version is just as good as the original, in parts even better.
Especially the part where they're speaking Jive, which is "translated" into a thick Bavarian dialect, including subtitles saying something completely different:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TEkI0cH_rK4

And for some reason, they translated the movie's title to "Die unglaubliche Reise in einem verrückten Flugzeug" (The Incredible Journey on a Crazy Airplane).

It can never escape because its turning speed helps nothing while the distance is big, so the pursuing ship can always catch up to it again.
The only reason a fighter pilot has a chance to escape a faster missile is when the missile's targeting system can only see in front of it, so when it overshoots it loses its target.
But with a faster turning speed, the chased ship can evade the pursuer forever, if the captain always turns at the perfect moment.

88? What a coincidence

Sometimes I long back for the times when I just used my computer to do things, instead of forming an opinion about the compression rate of my cursor's image data.

Weekend with no plans, ADHD edition:

• wake up
• looking forward to a full day of fatty food, gaming and shitposting on lemmy
• go downstairs to make scrambled eggs
• all pans are dirty
• dishwasher still broken
• partner asks if I've got the present for her aunt's birthday which is today and I apparently agreed to go to with her, 2 months ago
• the day spirals downward from there

Then there was Senator Tim Scott, another ex-rival who has already debased himself with a fawning endorsement of Trump. With his unerring ability to get under people’s skin, [Trump] said to Scott that, since former South Carolina governor Haley appointed him to the Senate, “You must really hate her.”

There was an awkward silence in the room and a rare grunt of dissent from someone. To rescue the situation, Scott stepped forward to the lectern, looked at Trump and grovelled: “I just love you!” The crowd exhaled in relief.

WTF?

He's in there with them.

Alt text: I'm the philosopher until someone hands me a burrito.

Sounds IT-related. Can you fix my printer?

In Lom Stave Church, a Norwegian church from the 12th century, there are Nordic runes carved into the wooden wall, right below the ceiling.

They read:
"I was here, all the way up in the corner."

https://www.worldhistory.org/image/12785/runes-in-the-lom-stave-church/

It will reach Slackware about 6 months before the heat death of the universe.

If you include ;",// you can mess with a wide variety of formatting.

*"If you put a large switch in some cave somewhere, with a sign on it saying 'End-of-the-World Switch. PLEASE DO NOT TOUCH', the paint wouldn't even have time to dry."*

– Terry Pratchett, in The Thief of Time

The "error" is designed to boost engagement, which makes the post more visible on social media.
And it works.

No, Mercedes is the first one to market with a level 3 (fully self driving) system, which is available with their top of the line sedan.
They applied for certification and got it from the state of Nevada. (Edit: And California)

The system itself is limited to 40mph.

“Reminder – ALL advanced driver assistance systems available today require the human driver to be in control and fully engaged in the driving task at all times,” Buttigieg said.

This is not entirely true anymore. If you're in a 2024 Mercedes EQS Sedan driving in Nevada (Edit: or California) at less than 40 mph, you are allowed to take your hands off the wheel and your eyes off the road.

"Or you can just purchase any of those features permanently"

This fact, hidden somewhere in the middle, makes the entire article pointless.

I can't even tell anymore whether this meme is pro-Democrat or pro-Republican, anti-American, anti-Semitic, post-ironic or just cursed.

In case you want a bigger version:

I mean, you'd get me with that.
On the downside, our dates would be a dirty affair, and not in the sexy way.

Environmentalists don't like it when you bury too many sharks.

Monosodium glutamate

I fixed a boot issue from the grub command line for the first time.

Every once in a while I check up on what reddit looks like now.
I find the same or similar topics posted, with 600 comments instead of 30, and 570 of those 600 are just whatever's the first thing that pops into everyone's mind after reading the post title.
I like it better here.

That's it! I'll never vote for this guy again!

It's not charged at a premium, it costs more to produce and deliver.
The entire process needs to be completely seperated from wheat flour. And the production numbers are lower, so all fixed costs need to be distributed over a lower number of sales units.

It's what we in the industry call "Bait".
And it's working.

Dwarf Fortress

“We value providing our customers with choice, so there is an option to dismiss the notification.”

Thank you daddy Microsoft for still letting me click "no" on your invasive popup ad with a dark pattern to make me change my system settings.

A container ship like that weighs more than the bridge tower it hit.

Which they did on purpose, so you can't use the recorded song commercially.

Sounds like complete bullshit. Like how would you determine that?
No one has historical records of when all wars started and ended on the entire earth, accurate to minutes.

When the planet's massive sandworms move, they barrel forward in a straight line. But as Tyson points out, pretty much all legless, worm or snake-like creatures on Earth have to slither in S-shaped lines if they want to move forward.

"Have you ever seen a snake chase you as a straight snake? No!"

Has he ever seen an earthworm???

"we will bring total victory for the people of Israel"
– Netanjahu

If you translate that directly to German and replace "Israel" with "Germany", you've got a Hitler quote.

Speaking out against intervention in [current war]
Speaking out in favor of past interventions in [previous decade's wars]

In November 2022, Alabama officials aborted his execution by lethal injection after struggling for hours to insert an intravenous line's needle in his body.

In Smith's second and final trip to the execution chamber on Thursday, executioners restrained him in a gurney and strapped a commercial industrial-safety respirator mask to his face. A canister of pure nitrogen was attached to the mask

This doesn't sound very professional!?

Name a better form of protest to get the people's attention.
Spoiler: They've tried that before.

The English equivalent is "When you're going through hell, keep going."